NAU-TV Basketball Coverage in HD Starts Nov. 15

Nov 08, 2011

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - NAU-TV will
again partner with NAU Athletics and televise 16 men’s and
women’s basketball games from the Northern Arizona University
campus in 2011-12. NAU-TV has upgraded its coverage to full high
definition this season, while broadcasting all their events online
and distributing to Fox Sports Arizona, Fox College Sports and
local Flagstaff cable.

“To have the accessibility of
television and the ability to reach a national audience is great
for our program and university as a whole,” said Head
Women’s Coach Laurie Kelly. “It has been very helpful
to recruiting outside our state and some of the regional areas,
attracting student-athletes from different parts of the
country.”

The first NAU-TV basketball
broadcast will be the NAU-Adams State women’s basketball
Tuesday, Nov. 15. It will be picked up nationally by Fox College
Sports and shown online on the NAU-TV and Big
Sky TV web streams. It will also be shown locally on Suddenlink
cable on channel 4. The NAU-TV broadcast team includes Mitch
Strohman, Jordan Byrd, Dave Brown, Sharon Falor and Marc
Buckhout.

NAU-TV will distribute all of the
events to Fox College Sports (FCS), a collection of three digital
cable channels (Pacific, Central, Atlantic) that are available
nationwide via basic digital cable and satellite. Direct TV has Fox
College Sports on channels 617 and 623. All 16 basketball telecasts
will be shown live on Fox College Sports.

Selected games will also be shown
live and on a tape-delayed basis on Fox Sports Arizona. FSAZ is a
regional sports network available in Arizona and New Mexico in 2.5
million households and nationally via satellite via the sports
package. Fox Sports Arizona is on Direct TV 686 and Dish Network
415.

Fox Sports Arizona and Fox Sports
Arizona PLUS will carry six NAU games live during the season,
starting with the men’s basketball contest against Pepperdine
on Dec. 7. The women’s games against Nebraska (Dec. 10),
Idaho State (Jan. 21), Northern Colorado (Jan. 27) and Montana
(March 3) will be shown on one of the Fox Sports Arizona platforms.
They will also air the men’s game against defending Big Sky
Conference champion Northern Colorado on Jan. 30. Four additional
games will be shown on a tape-delayed basis.

Here is a listing of the
complete NAU-TV schedules for men’s and women’s
basketball.